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You will need no formal organization perhaps, or if 

 you want to have a name for your extemporized society, 

 call it after some eminent Botanist. If one of your 

 number has had experience, or is more wise than the 

 rest in such things, let him be appointed your leader 

 or director, and if you care to keep a record of your 

 doings, of your tramps, adventures, successes, and 

 failures, your collectings, and your progress, appoint a 

 "ready writer" for j^our secretary. Such a record 

 might sometime be of real value to scientific botanists 

 in making notes of the flora of the region, and in 

 finding the habitat of uncommon species. It certainly 

 would in after years serve to recall many pleasant 

 memories. For collecting expeditions along the shore, 

 or to neighboring islands, go all together, or divide 

 off when it would be best, so as to send parties of 

 two each, to different localities, thus reaching as 

 many points as possible. Let each collect for all, that 

 is, collect enough specimens of each kind so as to be 

 able to supply all with duplicates. The study of 

 new or unknown plants, both mounted and un- 

 mounted, will be vastly more interesting and pro- 

 fitable, if it is carried on in company with the others. 

 The saying is, " two heads are better than one, if 

 one is a sheep's head." So, six pair of eyes and 

 six thinking minds are surely more than six times as 



